because a pound of aluminium will be thrice the bulk of the same weight of copper, and three times the number of culinary utensils can be made from it. en, under the superintendence of Messrs. Tissier, with the co-operation of Messrs. Malétra, Christofle, Chanu, Davy, &c. Let us all pray that their labors may be crowned with success; and We are gratified to learn that numerous ex- that science will justify the confidence which periments, having for their object the abridging industry has reposed in her, that the new and improving the processes in use for the ex- metal will be furnished in sufficient abundance traction of aluminium, are now being pursued to supply the demands and necessities of comin various parts of France, and especially at Rou-mon life. THE HIDDEN PATH. By Marion Harland. (Low | Francis was the author, but that Garrick must & Co.) JUNIUS.-In Rush's Residence at the Court of London, Vol. I. p. 310, is preserved an anecdote relating to the authorship of Junius, which may be appropriately recorded in "N. & Q.," not only from its apparent importance, but as more likely in such an index rerum to meet the eye of any future investigator of this vexed question, than in the work from which I transfer it. It is as follows: 1 'Mr. Canning related an anecdote pertinent to the topic, derived from the present king, when Prince of Wales. It was to the following effect: The late king was in the habit of going to the theatre once a week at the time Junius' Letters were appearing, and had a page in his service of the name of Ramus. This page always brought the play-bill in to the king at teatime, on the evenings when he went. On the evening before Sir Philip Francis sailed for India, Ramus handed to the king, at the same time when delivering the play-bill, a note from Garrick to Ramus, in which the former stated that there would be no more letters from Junius. This was found to be the very night on which Juntas addressed his laconic note to Garrick, threatening him with vengeance. Sir Philip did embark for India next morning, and in point of fact the letters ceased to appear from that very day. The anecdote added that there lived with Sir Philip at the time a relation of Ramus, who sailed in the morning with him. The whole narrative excited much attention, and was new to most of the company. The first impression it made was, not only that it went far towards showing, by proof almost direct, that Sir Philip have been in the secret." WILLIAM BATES, Birmingham. Notes and Queries. "" ces. HERRICK AND MILTON.-I am not going to speak of plagiarism, but of "great resemblanOld Herrick's "Epithalamium on Sir Clipseley Who that reads the exquisite opening of Carew and his Lady". "What's that we see from far! the spring of day To add a nobler planet to the seven?· Emergent Venus from the Sea? 'Tis she! 'tis she! or else some more divine Enlighten'd substance. Mark how from the shrine "But who is this? what thing of sea or land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Of Tarsus, bound for the isles With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Both passages are redolent of the same voluptuous beauty, and seem to issue from one and the same gorgeous imagination. A DESULTORY READER. |